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Examples of pornography in a Sentence

If you ask me, his movies are just high-class pornography.

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As Simon explained the series to Variety last year:
It's roughly based on the story of the actual people who were there, some of the people that were the pioneers when pornography came out of the brown paper bag and became an open industry.

A new challenge looms for Apple Inc. in China after internet regulators warned three video-app companies to do a better job of screening out pornography—an eye-popping task, as is evident here in the offices of the popular Huajiao streaming service.

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What is pornography?

For many people, any attempt to define the word pornography calls to mind the oft-quoted line from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964: “. . . I know it when I see it.” While compilers of dictionaries might wish to be granted such latitude in explaining the meaning of certain words, they are held to a higher standard.
Pornography, which has been used in English since the middle of the 19th century, comes from the Greek pornographos (“writing about prostitutes”), and initially referred to visual or written matter designed to cause sexual arousal, a meaning that is still the most common one employed today.
Pornography has taken on an additional, non-sexualized, sense: one that refers to a depiction of sensational material (such as violence) in order to elicit a reaction. The phrase “pornography of violence,” for example, began to be used in the early 1950s.

PORNOGRAPHY Defined for English Language Learners

pornography

Definition of pornography for English Language Learners

: movies, pictures, magazines, etc., that show or describe naked people or sex in a very open and direct way in order to cause sexual excitement

Law Dictionary

pornography

noun
por·nog·ra·phy \pȯr-ˈnä-grə-fē\

legal
Definition of pornography

: material that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement

Note:Pornographic material is protected expression unless it is determined to be obscene. However, child pornography is illegal under federal and state laws prohibiting the depiction of minors in sexual acts.